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Quote: Originally posted by draculic acid69  | Here's a question; how many of us have thought ahead and bought the pump at the same time as buying the glassware rather than having the glassware
arrive and then
going "shit now I need a pump" |
This brings back memories of my first distillation ever.
When I bought a distillation apparatus I thought I didn't need a pump as I already had a small pump of the kind used for spraying water on the
windshield in cars. Little did I know that those kind of pumps are really not designed for continuous operation, so when I actually ran my first
distillation, the pump melted. It was at that time, in the middle of a nitric acid distillation that I thought "shit now I need a pump".
I've always tried to be safe in the lab, so I had set up a NaOH scrubber for NO2 gas, but I didn't yet know what a suckback trap was and why I needed
one, and when I hastily turned off heating I totally forgot to disconnect the scrubber. It was at that time that the ten mL or so of nitric acid I
made for decapping integrated circuits quickly reverted back to the soduim nitrare I started with. Fun times.
[Edited on 16-10-2020 by beta4]
[Edited on 16-10-2020 by beta4]
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Not visible in the picture but the water goes out to a air over water heat exchanger with a couple cooling fans.
In fall and winter is when I do most my chem as it is to cold out side to do any thing, so water temp is at or below 0c with that small exchanger
running.
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Sometimes, it is possible to buy a water pump that is intended or small fountains. I used that as a replacement when my condenser pump broke and it
works fine.
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